Forrest Briggs

Redefining volumetric capture, compression and rendering, for VFX and XR

Lifecast· Winter 2022 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @LifecastI

2021Chief Executive Officer· Lifecast Incorporated

In tech · since 2005

Company

Lifecast Incorporated

Role

Chief Executive Officer

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

Menlo Park, California, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Lifecast

Software to create 3D video for VR, robotics and film.

Winter 2022

Experience

Career

Lifecast Incorporated
Chief Executive Officer · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2021 – Present
2021
X, the moonshot factory
Technical Lead for Calibration, Senior Software Engineer (Robotics) at Google X · Mountain View · 2019 – 2021
2019
Lyft
Technical Lead - Sensor Calibration, Autonomous Vehicle Engineering at Lyft Level 5 · Palo Alto · 2017 – 2019
2017
Facebook
Software Engineer (Building 8) - VR Camera Systems · Meno Park · 2015 – 2017
2015
Rocket Fuel Inc.
Machine Learning Scientist · 2014 – 2015
2014
Revolution Robotics
Machine Vision Consultant / Developer · 2011 – 2012
2011
The Learning Annex LLC
Web Developer · 2007 – 2008
2007
Sticky Inc
Software Developer · 2006 – 2007
2006
SoundSpectrum, Inc.
Software Developer · 2005 – 2007
2005
JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Intern · 2005
2005

Bio

Forrest (CEO at Lifecast) has a Ph.D. in machine learning and over 20 patents in VR video and AI perception systems. He previously developed computer-vision based VR video rendering software at Facebook, and was a tech lead at Lyft and Google X working on perception systems for self-driving cars and robots.